BUDDHIST DICTIONARY - N -

• nāma
• nāma-kāya
• nāma-rūpa
• ñāna: 'knowledge, comprehension, intelligence, insight', is a synonym for paññā; see also vipassanā.
• ñānadassana-visuddhi
• nānatta-saññā: The 'variety (or multiformity) - perceptions are explained under jhāna.
• ñāna-vipphārā iddhi: the 'power of penetrating knowledge', is one of the magical powers (iddhi).
• ñāta-pariññā: 'full understanding (or comprehension) of the known', is one of the 3 kinds of full understanding (pariññā).
• natthika-ditthi: 'nihilistic view' (a doctrine that all values are baseless, that nothing is knowable or can be communicated, and that life itself is meaningless), s. ditthi.
• natthi-paccaya: 'absence-condition', is one of the 24 conditions (paccaya).
• natural morality: pakati-sīla.
• navanga-buddha (or satthu)- sāsana: s. sāsana.
• nava-sattāvāsa: s. sattāvāsa.
• naya-vipassanā: s. kalāpa (2).
• ñāya: 'right method', is often used as a name for the Noble Eightfold Path (s. magga), e.g. in the Satipatthāna Sutta (M. 10, D. 22).
• neighbourhood-concentration: upacāra-samādhi.
• nekkhamma
• nesajjikanga: one of the 13 dhutanga.
• neutral, karmically: avyākata (q.v.); n. feelings, s. vedanā.
• n'eva-saññā-n'āsaññāyatana: The 'sphere of neither-perception-nor-non-perception', is the name for the fourth absorption of the immaterial sphere (arūpāvacara), a semi-conscious state, which is surpassed only by the state of complete suspense of consciousness, called 'attainment of extinction' (nirodha-samāpatti). See jhāna (8).
• n'eva-sekha-n'āsekha: 'neither in training nor beyond training', i.e. neither learner nor master. Thus is called the worldling (puthujjana), for he is neither pursuing the 3-fold training (sikkhā) in morality, mental culture and wisdom, on the level of the first 3 paths of sanctity, nor has he completed his training as an Arahat. See sekha. - (App.).
• neyya
• neyyattha-dhamma
• Nibbāna
• nibbatti: 'arising', 'rebirth', is a synonym for patisandhi.
• nibbedha-bhāgiya-sīla (-samādhi, -paññā): 'morality (concentration, wisdom) connected with penetration'; s. hāna-bhāgiya-sīla.
• nibbidānupassanā-ñāna: 'contemplation of aversion', is one of the 18 chief kinds of insight; s. vipassanā (4), samatha-vipassanā (2), visuddhi (VI, 5).
• nicca-saññā (-citta,-ditthi): perception (or consciousness, or view) of permanency, is one of the 4 perversions (vipallāsa).
• nihilistic view: natthika-ditthi; s. ditthi.
• nīla-kasina: 'blue-kasina exercise' s. kasina.
• nimitta
• nimmāna-rati: the name of a class of heavenly beings of the sensuous sphere; s. deva.
• nine abodes of beings: s. sattāvāsa.
• ninefold dispensation: s: sāsana.
• nippapañca: s. papañca.
• nipphanna-rūpa
• niraya
• nirodha: 'extinction'; s. nirodha-samāpatti, anupubba-nirodha.
• nirodhānupassanā: 'contemplation of extinction', is one of the 18 chief kinds of insight (vipassanā). See ānāpānasati (15).
• nirodha-samāpatti
• nirutti-patisambhidā: the 'analytical knowledge of language', is one of the 4 patisambhidā.
• nirvana: (Sanskrit= ) Nibbāna.
• nissarana-pahāna: 'overcoming by escape', is one of the 5 kinds of overcoming (pahāna).
• nissaya
• nissaya-paccaya: 'support', base, foundation, is one of the 24 conditions (s. paccaya, 8).
• nītattha-dhamma: A 'doctrine with evident meaning', contrasted with a 'doctrine with a meaning to be inferred' (neyyattha-dhamma). See also paramattha.
• nīvarana
• niyāma
• niyata-micchāditthi
• niyata-puggala
• noble abodes: s. vihāra.
• noble family, Passing from n.f. to n.f.: kolankola; s. Sotāpanna.
• noble persons: ariya-puggala.
• noble power: ariya iddhi; s. iddhi.
• noble truths, the 4: ariya-sacca; s. sacca. - The 2-fold knowledge of the n.t.; s. sacca-ñāna.
• noble usages, the 4: ariya-vamsa.
• non-disappearance: avigata-paccaya, is one of the 24 conditions (paccaya).
• non-violence: s. avihimsā.
• not-self: s. anattā.
• no-upādā-rūpa: 'underived corporeality', designates the 4 primary elements (mahābhūta or dhātu), as distinguished from the 'derived corporeality' (upādā-rūpa), such as the sensitive organs, etc. Cf. khandha, I.
• nutriment: s. ojā, āhāra. - āhāra is one of the 24 conditions (paccaya) - n.- produced corporeality; s. samutthāna.